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0 FEAR: THE FEAR RECORD: CD

January 31, 2013
by harleytexas
· Reviews

Fear The Record

After thirty years, sole original member Lee Ving decided to redo the seminal album FEAR THE RECORD, and although he has a capable and talented band, his vocals don’t hit the same highs as they did back then, but that can be expected after all these years. Really, this was good if you have never heard the original, but they can’t reach the same sense of power and energy that the original album did back then. It bothered me that Ving changed the words to his songs, in “New York’s Alright” he dropped the lyric about homosexuals which for a band that never cared about offending anyone in the past to do this was weak. The band plays the songs with a lot of energy, but that spark isn’t there like it was in the beginning, and I really had a hard time with this album being remade, I would have preferred a live album or a remastered version of the original with some added tracks instead of this. I love this band, I remember getting their first album and rushing home to play it, but this is not as good sadly, but if you are interested, pick it up for the clean sound that this has and to keep Ving in beer. (Rick E.)

http://theendrecords.com/ http://fearleeving.com/

0 DEADLY REIGN “End of Days” Official Music Video

January 29, 2013
by PE Admin
· Video

Directed by Beau Patrick Coulon. Edited by Renny de Leon.
Special thanks to Miguel Banderas.

3 No More Excuses: On Veganism, Colonialism, and Privlege

January 28, 2013
by Comrade Black
· Columns · PE Web Zine · Uncategorized

by Comrade Black

I am not suggesting that everyone everywhere in the world should be vegan, especially not in the case of Indigenous peoples living traditionally with a diet that ‘includes’ sustenance hunting and direct relationship¹; but it really pisses me off when white folks (& other settlers²) use indigenous cultures and their traditions as a scapegoat excuse to continue eating factory farmed meat and cheese bought from a grocery store. Last I checked no traditional communities (Indigenous to Turtle Island or elsewhere) ever had factory farms as part of their traditional ways of life. Nor did they have ‘rape racks’ or ‘veal’ calves, which are both part and parcel of modern dairy farming.³ As ALF prisoner Walter Bond once said ” most often the person making the argument isn’t as concerned with protecting the rights of tribal people as much as they are trying to equate Veganism with racism.”

Similarly I don’ t buy most of the arguments about dumpster-diving meat, cause when I dumpster there is far more than enough variety of stuff to be picky. In fact, when I am regularly hitting the bins I get far more privilege to be picky, it is when I am having to pay for foods at a store that I struggle cause I can often only afford the cheap crap. Just seems like another excuse to rationalize a behavior rather than change it. If you are rationalizing something, it usually means you know there is something wrong with what you are doing that you feel guilty about. If someone is poor enough they are getting food from the soup kitchens, or food banks, then I have no judgments; sometimes you need to take what you can get. I get that. We all do the best we can in the context we are living in.

If you don’t believe that animals are sentient, or just don’t believe in veganism, than that’s a different discussion. I would rather if people just said “I don’t believe in that” rather than making bullshit excuses. If you are gonna eat factory farmed animal flesh, cheese, eggs, etc, don’t try to find excuses or rationalize it. Either own up to the fact you are putting money into systems that are based on animal exploitation, or change your behavior if you are not ok with being part of that.

Footnotes:
¹) I also am quite aware that there is far more to the relationship that many Indigenous cultures have to the animals they hunt as food and that many settlers never acknowledge the importance of giving thanks, or to the other spiritual elements. Often we hear from settlers how Indigenous people ‘use all the parts,’ which is often true, but from my limited understanding this was only one part of the acts of respect given in return for the animals life. Whether secular settlers, atheists, or others choose to acknowledged or dismiss the spiritual exchange and relationship that many Indigenous say is the most important part of that interaction, doesn’t change the fact that it is important.

²) Settler means people who are not Indigenous (originating from that piece of land or that place). The term Settler is used because there is many types of colonialism, and in the context of Turtle Island (which most settlers now call north America), the type of colonialism that primarily occurred was ‘settler colonialism’ meaning Europeans moved here to settle here. Nothing is completely dichotomous, there are people who don’t fit nicely into the Indigenous/Settler binary, such as Metis, or displaced people of Indigenous heritage, and of course decedents of the slave trade. None the less, many of us are settlers, and having a language to explain this can be useful, even if/when it is also problematic.

³) The dairy industry is far more exploitative than many people ever consider. Cattle are force impregnated often using a device referred to in industry lingo as a ‘rape rack.’ A Dairy cow will only produce milk for a period of time after calving (giving birth), so they keep the cows perpetually pregnant. Dairy cattle and beef cattle are different breeds, specifically bread for specific traits (such as producing more milk, or alliteratively the fat to muscle ratio in beef animals). Thus while the female dairy animals can look forward a life as pregnant milk machines, the males have little value because you only want 1 or 2 Bulls (adult males) per dairy heard (some farms don’t even keep bulls, preferring to buy sperm for mechanical insemination). So male calves from dairy breeds are sold to be used as veal calves, where they ore often locked into crates, or tethered in tiny shoots, to discourage the development of muscle. After a few weeks of force feeding, they are sent to slaughter. All this is to ensure the flesh will be ‘tender.’

0 Doomed Society Radio #59

January 27, 2013
by damieninbred
· Doomed Society · Podcasts

Hey kids,

Damien Inbred here to tell you about the latest episode of my online radio show, Doomed Society. I didn’t have enough time last episode to properly explore my favorite records of last year, so I decided to do a second part!

You can get more details (and download it) over HERE!

Here’s what I played this week:

CROSS STITCHED EYES – vile corpse
CROSS STITCHED EYES – existence
CROSS STITCHED EYES – broken mind
CROSS STITCHED EYES – the void
CROSS STITCHED EYES – sluglord
OI POLLOI – tha sinn air ais
OI POLLOI – ar dileab
OI POLLOI – spadadh gun chiall
OI POLLOI – cyklopen
OI POLLOI – duisg!
OILTANKER – blind
OILTANKER – end of the rope
OILTANKER – nightmare of life
NO TOMORROW – liars
NO TOMORROW – haunted dreams
NO TOMORROW – never ending war
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT – shocked shackled & hanged
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT – the end of complacency
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT – lost in the darkness
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT – black sands
CONSUMPTION – abandoned to desolation
CONSUMPTION – the collapse
CONSUMPTION – no pariah
CONSUMPTION – consumption
CONSUMPTION – dismantle
WOLFBRIGADE – feed the flames
WOLFBRIGADE – road to dreams
WOLFBRIGADE – the curse of cain
WOLFBRIGADE – from beyond
WOLFBRIGADE – damned to madness
WOLFBRIGADE – peace of mind
LA ARMADA – cucharachas
LA ARMADA – el credito es el anzuelo
LA ARMADA – complice
LA ARMADA – negaciones
LA ARMADA – sangres
MERV – toxic earth
MERV – baptized of blood
MERV – runes
MERV – rotten depths of time
DEVIATED INSTINCT – judas cancer

0 Make It Last – Prolonging + Preserving the Things We Love

January 27, 2013
by backwoodsvegan
· Reviews

It does really matter what your living situation is or who you are, this is a book for everyone. Most of us are guilty of being a little lazy when it comes to doing certain things ourselves for different reasons: lack of knowledge, lack of confidence, laziness or who knows what, but this is a book that can help us all through it. It’s a much less expensive and much less dry version of those “how to fix everything” books, but can be almost as valuable. Make It Last is broken down into three chapters: Clothes, Food and Home, then each chapter is broken down into subgroups in order to help the reader jump straight to whatever they might need to patch, pickle or repair. While having fairly detailed step by step instructions and quite a few diagrams, I did find some of the projects a tad confusing at times, but as long as you have even a bit of common sense you’ll be just fine. The first chapter walks the reader through many of the simple annoying little things that tend to plague us at the worst times. We’ve lazy zippers, split seams on skirts/pants/shirts and reattaching buttons. And before jumping in, there’s a basic supply list and how tos for basic knots and stitches. Chapter two is where it gets more interesting(for me anyway). It’s about food. More precisely, preserving food. Starting off with some harvesting tips and planning a root cellar, then a lesson on drying herbs, canning, fermentation, jerky making and much more! The third and final chapter is no less important and some might say it’s more so. This is where we learn tips and tricks and skills to repair things around the house. Cover it up with duct tape? Put an out of order sign on it? Hang a poster in front of it? Nope! Here you’ll learn to patch that hole in the wall that your drunk friend put his foot through while playing drunken air guitar to DRAGONFORCE, fix a squeaky door hinge, basic plumbing and repairing a hole in a screen from a door or window(no doubt caused by the same drunk guy). Plus this is easy to carry around. It’s 1/4 size and only 128 pages. Get this and keep it handy. (Jake)

Microcosm Publishing / 636 SE 11th Ave. / Portland OR. 97214

microcosmpublishing.com

0 Vegan Tofurkey Melt

January 24, 2013
by melissavaruker
· Crusty Collectivist Cooking Project · Radness · Recipes Section

I had really been craving a melt lately and figured I’d throw one together. Not only is this sandwich easy to make but it turned out SO GOOD! This will cure your cravings and definitely leave you satisfied.

Ingredients

– Vegan Bacon

– Butter

– Bread

– Tofurkey deli slices

– Tomato

– Thousand island dressing

Prepare preferred vegan bacon on skillet.
As the “bacon” is cooking, prepare the sandwich. Butter outsides of bread then cut slices in half; add the Tofurkey, tomato, Thousand Island dressing, and finally the bacon once it’s done cooking.
Put the sandwich in the skillet and flip once bread is golden brown. Repeat this step with the other side of the sandwich.

I used Tofurkey’s hickory smoked deli slices (brown box), Lightlife Smart Bacon and a multigrain bread for the melt in the picture. Add more veggies to the sandwich or a vegan cheese if you’d like.

0 DIN SKEVF: Man Måste Vara Galen För Att Kunna Va Normal: 12″

January 22, 2013
by harleytexas
· Reviews

Man måste vara galen för att kunna va normal cover art

Some really nice Swedish hardcore with more punk to them than just straight out speed of most hardcore bands. The singer sings on here which is a treat from all of the shouting, yelling that goes on most hardcore bands which is a nice treat, being able to hear the words, of course, I have no idea what the lyrics are because he sings in Swedish, but that’s beside the point. The band plays nice and tight, no crazy leads all over, just to the point guitar, strong bass work, some hard-hitting drums and some gang vocals done really well. This is a great example of getting it all right, the band playing well, the production keeping things clear, but not to tidy to make this a great hardcore album with no metal added, just well done hardcore. These guys really did a great job on this release, do yourself and them a favor and go check them out. I have to go and play this again, nice and loud and open up the windows to let the neighbors hear it too. (Rick E.)

http://gaphals.se/ http://dinskevf.se/ http://dinskevf.bandcamp.com/music https://www.facebook.com/dinskevf

0 DAMAGE: Weapons Of Mass Destruction: 12″

January 22, 2013
by harleytexas
· Reviews

Weapons of Mass destruction 12" cover art

This album goes by super fast, ten songs on 45 rpm, only around fourteen minutes long and only five hundred made with two hundred copies on transparent green vinyl and three hundred copies on black vinyl. These guys are super tight, lots of nice leads, maniac drumming, nice rolling bass and a singer in hardcore who doesn’t have to scream his head off at you. This really had a nice old school feel to it without being a knockoff of old stuff, but it just had that classic hardcore sound and feel which I love. This goes by fast, but it really seems to fit with the songs, short and to the point without any filler, this has the meat and no bones, or for you non-meat eaters, (a sad group), all tofu, no gmo’s. This was a treat to listen to, it took me back to a time when bands played like this and the bad metal hadn’t crept in yet. (Rick E.)

http://gaphals.se/ http://damage.bandcamp.com/music https://www.facebook.com/pages/Damage/280180958689794

0 FREEBASE: From The Basement: 7″

January 22, 2013
by harleytexas
· Reviews

This is some awesome metallic hardcore from these vets who went on hiatus for a decade, but now are back and better than ever if this is any indication. Some hard-hitting blast beats, growling vocals that just rumble through the EP, the drums are just pounding away like crazy, the guitarist is throwing in some sweet leads, and the bassist is adding the right amount of heaviness to make the room shake when In turn this up loud. I had heard about this band, but never heard their older stuff, but damn, this is the shit right here. This is the kind of tasty hardcore that will have you shouting along and moving even if you try not to, it’s that good. These guys have been around since 1995 and know that they reactivated the band, they have added three new members and on here have re-done three songs from the sessions from their first album Nothing To Regret. This is a real welcome surprise and addition to anyone’s hardcore collection. (Rick E.)

http://dryheaverecords.limitedrun.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FreebaseUKHC?fref=ts http://www.freebase-ukhc.com/

0 Blasted: Exposed / Time To Die: 7″

January 22, 2013
by harleytexas
· Reviews

Some super fast hardcore with traces of the booze soaked bands like NASHVILLE PUSSY, but not sounding too much like them, but having a kinship with them. The singer has a great growl to his voice, nice screams and throat shredding going on, the band has some sweet guitar work going on while the bass and drums just lock in and go like they are in a race, but never lose control, but you know that they could do it in a heartbeat. This has a ton of energy and never lets up for a second from start to finish, they just seem to get more wild as the EP goes by and you just get sucked in and go with it and it makes you want to break something… just awesome! I have got to get more from these guys, this is the kind of shit that makes me glad that I get to hear some bands that I’ve never heard of before because it would be sad that I never would have heard this. (Rick E.)

http://blastedband.bandcamp.com/album/exposed-time-to-die-7 https://www.facebook.com/blastedband http://dryheaverecords.limitedrun.com/

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The legendary crust classic is now available once again!

We are happy to announce our next new release

WILT – “Self Titled”

Here is a track from the upcoming LP

“Sermon for the Bootlickers”